Margaret Thatcher dies after stroke: Reaction as it happened
Key Points
- Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died at the age of 87 following a stroke
- She was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990, the first woman to hold the post
- Baroness Thatcher will not have a state funeral but will be accorded the same status as Princess Diana and the Queen Mother
- Baroness Thatcher died "peacefully" at the Ritz hotel in central London, where she had been staying since December
- Prime Minister David Cameron called her a "great Briton", and the Queen spoke of her sadness at the death
- The ceremony, with full military honours, will take place at London's St Paul's Cathedral